Customer Reviews

Handmark Rand McNally Road Atlas (m125, m130, m500, m505, m515, i705, Tungsten T, Handspring Treo 90)

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Don't waste our money on this software. On my Palm Tungsten T, the maps are fuzzy images. The information is not really very useful either. It also is not user friendly. This is the worst SW purchase that I have made for my Palm & I have been using one for years.

In a nutshell, this product stinks and I cannot find one good feature that is worth mentioning.

This product is completely unhelpful for most driving situations. There are no turn by turn directions within a city, just info on major highways which is much easier to get from a basic map. I returned mine.

Not only is it not very easy to use, it doesn't give you a visual format for point to point destination, only text directions. Then the SD went bad for a reason beyond my understanding one day when I tried to use it, and now everytime I try to calculate a point to point destination my tungsten gets a fatal error and requires a hard reset. Only with this SD program do I have this problem with my PDA. This sucks so bad that Amazon should incorporate the 1/2 star for beyond bad.

I bought this card hoping it would give me Mapquest on my Palm. It doesn't. But it does have the exits for US Interstates and can generate directions between major cities in the US. Also, the information is dated, some resturants have closed (most Gas stations appear to be correct), and I'm sure some new resturants have opened, so your milage may vary. :-)

The detail level of the maps is not great, but it supposedly matches the maps in the standard paper road map. I've not checked that out, but if it did, that would be nice. I would much rather have the detail of the paper map in my palm.

Maybe the Palm doesn't support that level of detail (possible I suppose) - but then again maybe they don't want to give that much away. Overall, I'd say it's nice, but it's not the paper map (or online Map) replacement I was hoping it would be.

When I bought it, I was thinking of a pocket PC version of the great Rand McNally road atlas. Wrong! It is next to worthless for me -- except in calculating distances between towns. Search for any town outside a major metro area and it will likely "show up" without a label -- maybe just two lines on a virtually blank screen. Even if you do get a town label, it is not likely to stay on during the zoom process. When you zoom out, you are likely to lose track entirely of the town's location. If you zoom out on Michigan until the entire state is visible, the only cities labeled are Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, and some place called Washington Island?! And the cities are not marked. The Milwaukee label stretches across Lake Michigan; so for those not geographically astute, you have to guess which side of the Big Lake it lies on

It is primarily a list of interstate highway exits and their amenities and a mileage calculator. And for $50, that's a rip-off. I bought Microsoft Streets for my laptop, and it had a Pocket Streets version included -- all for $25; and though you have to download regions before you take a trip, it does give you the details you need to see how locations are related to one another.

Don't believe the package hype on this one!

Absolutely user unfriendly, overpriced, and useless. That's all I could say about this product. If you try it, you will see exactly what I mean.

The atlas isn't great for navigation, as it can't do point-to-point directions. It can get you from one city to another, however, and is also useful for calculating the distance between two cities. What makes this product worth owning is that with a simple touch on the screen, you can see what awaits you at the next exit - gas stations, restaurants, hotels, notable sites, etc...

My atlas did not work on my Treo 600, however; it caused it to reset everytime I tried to access it. It's got to be a glitch with that particular model, however, as it worked fine on my Tungsten C.